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<span class=large>ZECHARIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 7
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The Lord reproves hypocrisy in fasts—He calls upon the people to show mercy and compassion and live godly lives.
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And</span> it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, <i>that</i> the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto Zechariah in the fourth <i>day</i> of the ninth month, <i>even</i> in Chisleu;
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When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>,
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<i>And</i> to speak unto the priests which <i>were</i> in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
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&#182; Then came the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts unto me, saying,
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Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh <i>month,</i> even those seventy years, did ye at all <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/7/5a" mark="a" type="C" title="Matt. 6: 16; 3 Ne. 13: 16 (16-18); TG Fasting.">fast</a> unto me, <i>even</i> to me?
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And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat <i>for yourselves,</i> and drink <i>for yourselves?</i>
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<i>Should ye</i> not <i>hear</i> the words which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath cried by the <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/7/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 84: 57 (14, 54-57).">former</a> prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when <i>men</i> inhabited the south and the plain?
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&#182; And the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto Zechariah, saying,
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Thus speaketh the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, saying, Execute true <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/7/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Justice.">judgment</a>, and shew <sup>b</sup><a href="zech/7/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Mercy.">mercy</a> and <sup>c</sup><a href="zech/7/9c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Charity; TG Compassion.">compassions</a> every man to his brother:
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/7/10a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ezek. 22: 7 (7-14); TG Cruelty.">oppress</a> not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the <sup>b</sup><a href="zech/7/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 22: 22; Mosiah 4: 26 (16-26); Hel. 4: 12; D&C 42: 30 (30-39, 71); D&C 83: 6.">poor</a>; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
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But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
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Yea, they made their hearts <i>as</i> an adamant <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/7/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 13: 20.">stone</a>, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former <sup>b</sup><a href="zech/7/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 11: 13; 1 Ne. 3: 20; Mosiah 15: 13.">prophets</a>: therefore came a great wrath from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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Therefore it is come to pass, <i>that</i> as he cried, and they would not hear; so <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/7/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 1: 2 (1-3).">they</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="zech/7/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Access to.">cried</a>, and I would not hear, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts:
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But I <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/7/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">scattered</a> them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not.  Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
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